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Joanne
Dec 03, 2014 rated it it was ok
I only gave this two stars because it was consistently patchy. There were stretches that I really enjoyed and then stretches that I really didn't. By the end of this book, I found myself regularly thinking, "How the hell did he not die?" and that in itself was intriguing. Overall, an interesting, personal look back at a very turbulent time in Ethiopian history. ...more
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Dec 03, 2008 rated it really liked it
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